Epic visions : visuality in Greek and Latin epic and its reception / [edited by] Helen Lovatt and Caroline Vout.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lovatt, Helen, 1974- editor.

Vout, Caroline, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Epic poetry, Greek--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Greek.

Epic poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Epic poetry, Latin.

Art and literature.

Civilization, Ancient, in art.

Visual perception in literature.

Imagery (Psychology) in literature.

Object (Aesthetics) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 327 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This wide-ranging, interdisciplinary collection explores different ways of visualising Greek and Roman epic from Homer to Statius, in both ancient and modern culture. The book presents new perspectives on Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Valerius Flaccus and Statius, and covers the re-working of epic matter in tragedy, opera, film, late antique speeches of praise, story-boarding, sculpture and wall-painting. The chapters use a variety of methods to address the relationship between narrative and visuality, exploring how and why epic has inspired artists, authors and directors and offering fresh visual interpretations of epic texts. Themes and issues discussed include: intermediality, ekphrasis and panegyric, illusion and deception, imagery and deferral, alienation and involvement, the multiplicity of possible visual responses to texts, three-dimensionality, miniaturisation, epic as cultural capital, and the specificity of genres, both literary and visual.

Contents:

Seeing in the dark: kleos, tragedy, and perception in Iliad / Jon Hesk

Operatic visions: Berlioz stages Virgil / Helen Lovatt

Visualizing Venus: epiphany and anagnorisis in Valerius Flaucus' Argonautica / Emma Buckley

The look of the late antique emperor and the art of praise / Roger Rees

Intermediality in Latin epic: en video quaecumque audita / Martin T. Dinter

Viewing violence in Statius' Thebiad and the films of Quentin Tarantino / Kyle Gervais

Storyboarding and epic / Lynn S. Fotheringham and Matt Brooker

Epic in the round / Caroline Vout

Split screen visions: Heracles on top of Troy in the Casa di Octavius Quartio in Pompeii / Katharina Lorenz

Epic visions on the Tabulae iliacae / Michael Squire.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-26082-8

1-316-26256-1

1-316-26431-9

1-316-62954-6

1-316-26261-8

1-139-60026-5

1-316-26505-6

1-316-26359-2

1-316-26614-1

OCLC:

897640285